MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2012
Japan: Boston Public Library President Delivers Lecture at National Diet Library (Transcript/Slides)
Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|From the National Diet Library Newsletter: On October 2, 2012, Ms. Amy E. Ryan, President of the Boston Public Library (BPL), gave a lecture “Fulfilling the Public Library’s 21st Century Potential: The Power of a Strategic Plan” in the Tokyo Main Library of the National Diet Library (NDL). The event was relayed to the Kansai-kan […]
From The Art Newspaper: The Vatican has published a vast online catalogue of the Italian Catholic Church’s artistic heritage. The project, which began 16 years ago, is ongoing but in the meantime the Church hopes the database will help in the recovery of works if they are stolen. The website contains almost 3.5m objects, from […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has released a free ebook that looks at the, “Emancipation Proclamation in its social and political context with documents in the National Archives’ holdings that illustrate the efforts of the many Americans, enslaved and free, white and black, by whom slavery was abolished in the United States.” Direct […]
The following article is scheduled to appear in the May 2014 issue of College & Research Libraries. It was accepted for publication in December 2012. Title Commercial Database Design vs. Library Terminology Comprehension: Why Do Students Print Abstracts Instead of Full-Text Articles? Authors Bonnie Imler Library Director, Penn State Altoona Michelle Eichelberger Genesee Community College […]
Update: As we were posting the item below, a related article appeared on ars technica. It might also be of interest. The music industry dropped DRM years ago. So why does it persist on e-books? (via ars technica) For many industry watchers, it comes down to the fact that generally speaking, most people own more […]
From Europeana: Europeana [is now home] to about one million historical images coming fresh from the archives of nine European news agencies participating in the EURO-Photo project: ANSA in Italy, belga in Belgium, dpa in Germany, EFE in Spain, Lusa in Portugal, MTI in Hungary, PAP in Poland, Scanpix in Denmark and epa worldwide. The […]
From The NY Times: After several well-publicized cases involving writers buying or manipulating their reviews, Amazon is cracking down. Writers say thousands of reviews have been deleted from the shopping site in recent months. Amazon has not said how many reviews it has killed, nor has it offered any public explanation. So its sweeping but […]
From The Oregonian: The Portland Art Museum has begun a large-scale project to document its artwork with high-resolution digital photographs. Documenting its collection with photographs is nothing new. The museum has boxes of black-and-white negatives, slides and transparencies going back decades. What’s new is putting digital photos online for everyone to see, from fourth-graders to […]
From The Globe and Mail: It’s not news that the public library in the 21st century is a very different place from the days when stern librarians and cathedral silence presided over the great treasure house of books that dominated its services until the arrival of digital. Even so, at a time when the Internet […]
New year-end rankings from Nielsen. Smartphone owners became the majority of mobile phone users for the first time this year, growing from 49 percent of mobile subscribers in Q1 2012, to 56 percent by Q3 2012. Mobile app usage also continued to grow. Among the top 10 mobile apps, Twitter was the fastest growing Android […]